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203. Apollonius of Tyana 28 Mar 1921, Dornach
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy

But these older versions do not contain the sentence: "Thy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven"—which implies the activity of the Ego itself. In pre-Christian times, men experienced the Father God as the ground of existence while they were in a state of suppressed consciousness. But with the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven to Earth, the experience was henceforward to take place in full consciousness.
68a. The Essence of Christianity: The Gospel of John from a Theosophical Point of View 04 Apr 1908, Oslo

He taught them to rise above the sense of gender—up to a Father other than Father Abraham, up to the God hidden in their own innermost soul. Love of one's own sex and love of one's own people should be elevated to love of all people, to love of all living creatures in the world.
If we read the introductory words correctly, we see that in the background of all physicality there is a spiritual world of origin, the divine Father-thought. And when Christ says, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30), then with this Father he means precisely this divine spark, which is the breath of life in every human soul.
“Whoever does not renounce father and mother is not worthy of me” (Luke 14:26; Matthew 19:29), he says. No blood ties apply anymore, only the eternal father principle in every human soul.
95. At the Gates of Spiritual Science: Workings of the Law of Karma in Human Life 28 Aug 1906, Stuttgart
Translated by Charles Davy, E. H. Goddard

The Bible has a true saying, very often misunderstood, when it speaks of God visiting the sins of the fathers on the children, even to the third and fourth generations. This does not refer to the successive incarnations of individuals, but to a karma affecting whole generations.
Physical heredity plays a great role; we know that some of the characteristics of a father and his ancestors may be found again in the son. In the Bach25 family, for instance, there were twenty-eight highly gifted musicians in a period of 250 years.
97. Adept-School of the Past 07 Mar 1907, Düsseldorf
Translator Unknown

He could understand the language of Nature and could hear God speak to him in the murmuring waves; he could understand the rolling thunder, the rustling forest, the delicate aromas of the flowers; he could understand this language of Nature and was in the whole of Nature.
Between the Mysteries of the SPIRIT and those of the FATHER, stand the MYSTERIES OF THE SON. Their seminary was the School of St. Paul, who had appointed Dionysios as its leader.
In the MYSTERIES OF THE SON, Christ Himself appeared as a teacher in the most solemn celebrations and was therefore also a teacher who was not a man, but God. But in the MYSTERIES OF THE FATHER, those who will become teachers will be men, These men, who develop more quickly than the others, will be the true Masters of Wisdom and of Harmony; they are called “The Fathers”, in the Mysteries of the Father, the guidance of mankind passes from beings who have descended from other worlds into the hands of men themselves.
11. Atlantis and Lemuria: Transition of the Atlantean into the Âryan Root-Race
Translated by Max Gysi

Consequently the teachings of the leaders had also to be clad in a form which was unlike the form used in the communication of earthly matters. The language used in the mysteries between the gods and their messengers was, indeed, no earthly tongue, nor were the forms assumed by the gods in their manifestations of an earthly kind.
Fulfil the commands of the God whom ye see not, and obey Him of whom ye can make to yourselves no image.” Thus sounded, from the lips of the great Leader, the new and highest commandment, prescribing the worship of a God whom no image, visible to the senses, could resemble, of whom, therefore, none such should be made.
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The Festivals and Their Meaning I: Christmas: Christmas at a Time of Grievous Destiny 21 Dec 1916, Basel
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

The Southern practice spread towards the North, although an intermixture of the old still remained at the time when the Wanen gods were superseded by the Asen gods. Just as the Wanen are connected with wähnen, so are the Asen connected with the German sein (being)—that is to say, being or existence in the material world which the mind tries to grasp externally.
Arius: "The Son was once created out of nothing by the Divine Will, was the first creature and the creator of the Universe, hence to be called God, though subject to the Father," This was declared heretical by the Council of Nicea in A.D. 325, and replaced by the Athanasian principle of faith. "The Son of God is from eternity, not created, but begotten out of the Being of the Father, and is of like nature to the Father.
93. The Temple Legend: The Mysteries of the Druids and the ‘Drottes’ 30 Sep 1904, Berlin
Translated by John M. Wood

Example: We know the saga of Baldur. We know that he is the hope of the gods, that he is killed by the god Loki with a branch of mistletoe. The God of Light is killed. This whole story has a deep mystery content which all who underwent initiation not only had to learn, but had to experience.
Their chief deities are reducible to two,—a male and a female, the great father and mother, Hu and Ceridwen, distinguished by the same characteristics as belonged to Osiris and Isis, Bacchus and Ceres, or any other supreme god and goddess representing the two principles of all being.
In the instructions given to the neophyte, he is told that the greatest and most ancient of gods is called Alfader (the father of all), and has twelve epithets, which recall the twelve attributes of the sun, the twelve constellations, the twelve superior gods of Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
8. Christianity As Mystical Fact (1961): Plato as a Mystic
Translated by E. A. Frommer, Gabrielle Hess, Peter Kändler

Only out of the soul of man can this image be born. It is not the Father Himself who can be born of man, but the Son, the offspring of God living in the soul, who is like unto the Father.
This world-intelligence, the Logos, appears as the book in which “has been inscribed and engraved the formation of the world.”47 Further it appears as the Son of God, who “followed the ways of his Father, and shaped the different kinds, looking to the archetypal patterns which that Father supplied.”
He considers love from the viewpoint of a thinker capable of cognition. For him love is not a god. But it is something leading man to God. Eros, love, is no god for him. God is perfect, and therefore possesses beauty and goodness.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: Autobiographical Fragment II

My father had only been transferred from a small southern Styrian railway station to Kraljevec shortly before my birth. My father and mother came from the Horn area in Lower Austria; my mother was born in Horn and my father came from Geras, the seat of a Premonstratensian monastery in Lower Austria.
My parents were not particularly pious people. Even in Pottschach, my father always said that “service to the Lord comes before service to God” and used this as an excuse for never going to church, saying that his work left him no time to pray.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: Celebration of Günther Wagner's 70th Birthday 06 Mar 1912, Berlin

And the abbot, who became abbot of this order in 1227, told his elders about his father, how much he had clung to him, that this father had gone to Palestine with the leader of the Third Crusade, how the father had told of the many hardships, how he had gone through privations and suffering, how he had fought; but the father also told of life in the Orient, and for example how glass was made there, how the color purple was produced.
The father had been a knight of St. John of Jerusalem, and the abbot always had a great affection for them, as well as for the Teutonic knights, although his uncle, his father's brother (?)
Perhaps the boy was inspired by the mild gaze he saw in the abbot's eyes to ask a question that we can only describe as impertinent. — The image is strongly emotional at this point. — This eight-year-old boy in the robes of St. Benedict said to the abbot: “Reverend Father, I cannot form a mental image of God.” The abbot looked kindly at the boy after this bold speech; he did not answer, but walked away in silence.

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